Hey all
Hypothetical question here. Picture it: If you were to no longer require an income, ie someone else was paying you outside of your work to cover your expenses, investments, trust fund, or whatever, you just don't need money to live.
Under this scenario what would you do for 'work'?
I put it in '' because I feel work sometimes is confused with job, whilst here I'm referring more to a calling. What line of work would you do? What sort of set up would you have - your own hours? work from anywhere or rather with other people in an office to share a common goal? Do you prefer working with other people or on your own? Would it be to help people or solve a difficult problem or would you just try to hit a bigger amount of money like some kind of weird high score?
Let me know what your ideal would look like - this assumes you're your current age, not like at retirement age or anything. I'd be interested to know what people's motivations are.
As a start, personally I think I'd move into something where I build homes / carpentry / landscaping or something using my hands with a few like-minded volunteers and we sometimes build for the poor and sometimes to just renovate and make a great space. It would definitely be a choice each day how many hours to work. I also need to be surrounded by people for social interaction and hated being a lone contracter.
Other ideas would be creating & repairing games or toys (both digital or cool toys for kids), or being involved with nature or animals. So it seems for me ideal would be a combination of the outdoors, physical work, helping others, social and autonomy.
I like to think about these things, because I've met a number of people over the years where when I ask what they would be doing, they say the same as what they're doing now (it's not a very exciting line of work so it surprises me), or they would work till they die and are actually terrified of turning age 60/65 because the company will force them to stop. So I feel like I'm a bit odd to want to do something that is not prestigious, but provides other benefits.
Ideas on what you'd do?
Hypothetical question here. Picture it: If you were to no longer require an income, ie someone else was paying you outside of your work to cover your expenses, investments, trust fund, or whatever, you just don't need money to live.
Under this scenario what would you do for 'work'?
I put it in '' because I feel work sometimes is confused with job, whilst here I'm referring more to a calling. What line of work would you do? What sort of set up would you have - your own hours? work from anywhere or rather with other people in an office to share a common goal? Do you prefer working with other people or on your own? Would it be to help people or solve a difficult problem or would you just try to hit a bigger amount of money like some kind of weird high score?
Let me know what your ideal would look like - this assumes you're your current age, not like at retirement age or anything. I'd be interested to know what people's motivations are.
As a start, personally I think I'd move into something where I build homes / carpentry / landscaping or something using my hands with a few like-minded volunteers and we sometimes build for the poor and sometimes to just renovate and make a great space. It would definitely be a choice each day how many hours to work. I also need to be surrounded by people for social interaction and hated being a lone contracter.
Other ideas would be creating & repairing games or toys (both digital or cool toys for kids), or being involved with nature or animals. So it seems for me ideal would be a combination of the outdoors, physical work, helping others, social and autonomy.
I like to think about these things, because I've met a number of people over the years where when I ask what they would be doing, they say the same as what they're doing now (it's not a very exciting line of work so it surprises me), or they would work till they die and are actually terrified of turning age 60/65 because the company will force them to stop. So I feel like I'm a bit odd to want to do something that is not prestigious, but provides other benefits.
Ideas on what you'd do?
